Re: Too stupid to own computer.

Note that this post applies if you are planning to use your PC for playing games... You will probably find that unless you spend some more and upgrade the graphics card too, you will not see huge performance improvements. You could have an AMD Athlon 1200 and still not be able to play anything more modern than Quake 2. If you are not looking to spend much, a GeForce 2 MX card should do the trick nicely. You might want to spend more on your CPU cooler too. Just MHO. Alex. "Richard S Beckett" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:982n3u$[email hidden]...

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> x-no-archive: yes > > Hehe...well, I'm not really, but I'm about to upgrade, and am very out of > touch. Would somoene mind checking I'm not doing anything stupid? Thanks. > I'm trying to upgrade for around �200. > > Currently I have a K6/200, so I need an ATX case, new MB, memory,

processor,

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> cooler. > > I'm hoping to keep my ATI all in wonder pro PCI, and soundblaster, but I > assume that my voodoo1 card won't be worth the trouble of re-fitting. I'm > really out of touch with graphics cards. I'll probably upgrade that later, > assuming the ATI's ok for now. > > The motherboard's an ATX Soltek SL 75KV+ Socket A at �78, with on-board > sound, and is capable of taking up to a 1.2GHz processor. What sort of

power > supply will I need in the case to power it when I upgrade next time? > > I'm going for 128Mb of PC133 dimm RAM, and a duron 750 sktA at �30 and�50,

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> and a high performance sktA cooler at around a fiver. > > I'm hoping to end up with something that'll let me have a good go at GPL, > and will run GP3 nicely. > > All help greatly appreciated. > > Thanks. > > R. > >

If you're keeping the ATI card and want to run GPL, you better keep the voodoo as well. The ATI will not run GPL very well in any available rasterizer. -- Ian P <email invalid due to spam> Richard S Beckett <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:982n3u$[email hidden]... > x-no-archive: yes > > Hehe...well, I'm not really, but I'm about to upgrade, and am very out of > touch. Would somoene mind checking I'm not doing anything stupid? Thanks. > I'm trying to upgrade for around �200. > > Currently I have a K6/200, so I need an ATX case, new MB, memory, processor, > cooler. > > I'm hoping to keep my ATI all in wonder pro PCI, and soundblaster, but I > assume that my voodoo1 card won't be worth the trouble of re-fitting. I'm > really out of touch with graphics cards. I'll probably upgrade that later, > assuming the ATI's ok for now. > > The motherboard's an ATX Soltek SL 75KV+ Socket A at �78, with on-board > sound, and is capable of taking up to a 1.2GHz processor. What sort of power > supply will I need in the case to power it when I upgrade next time? > > I'm going for 128Mb of PC133 dimm RAM, and a duron 750 sktA at �30 and �50, > and a high performance sktA cooler at around a fiver. > > I'm hoping to end up with something that'll let me have a good go at GPL, > and will run GP3 nicely. > > All help greatly appreciated. > > Thanks. > > R. > >

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] (RenderedBrian) writes: >You might end up going over budget, by the time you price a *decent* atx >case. If you spend extra on a case (preferably full tower, and *black*), >you will be forever happy! Good things to look for in a case are seperatly >removable side panels (so you can run with one side open, for heating >control), slide out motherboard tray (for easy motherboard maintenance), >hard disk drive bays, plus mounts for 80mm fans. What do you recommend for an ATX case? Any particular brands/models? Eldred -- Dale Earnhardt, Sr. 1951-2001 Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett GPL F1 hcp. +28.67...F2 +151.26...F3 hcp. +373.73 Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience... Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

> > What do you recommend for an ATX case? Any particular brands/models? > > Eldred Email Tom Pabst...he'll give you some choices... dave henrie

I have the AcerOpen HX45 mid tower. Works very well for me, and before you think you might not get a lot in a mid tower - I have - 2 hard drives, a cd-rom drive, a cd-rw, sblive card, GeForce2 MX vid card, network card, 300 watt PC Power & Cooling ps, and still have a couble bays left to play with - oh, and 3 fans. -- Don Burnette D Burnette in N4 Some people do nothing wrong. The problem is, they do nothing. And THAT is wrong. "EldredP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > In article <[email hidden]>, > [email hidden] (RenderedBrian) writes: > > >You might end up going over budget, by the time you price a *decent* atx > >case. If you spend extra on a case (preferably full tower, and *black*), > >you will be forever happy! Good things to look for in a case are seperatly > >removable side panels (so you can run with one side open, for heating > >control), slide out motherboard tray (for easy motherboard maintenance), > >hard disk drive bays, plus mounts for 80mm fans. > > What do you recommend for an ATX case? Any particular brands/models? > > Eldred > -- > Dale Earnhardt, Sr. 1951-2001 > Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett > GPL F1 hcp. +28.67...F2 +151.26...F3 hcp. +373.73 > > Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you > with experience... > Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

I'm using the Aopen HX08 it's 300 Watts and 5 bays, full tower all the bells and whistles. "EldredP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > In article <[email hidden]>, > [email hidden] (RenderedBrian) writes: > > >You might end up going over budget, by the time you price a *decent* atx > >case. If you spend extra on a case (preferably full tower, and *black*), > >you will be forever happy! Good things to look for in a case areseperatly

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> >removable side panels (so you can run with one side open, for heating > >control), slide out motherboard tray (for easy motherboard maintenance), > >hard disk drive bays, plus mounts for 80mm fans. > > What do you recommend for an ATX case? Any particular brands/models? > > Eldred > -- > Dale Earnhardt, Sr. 1951-2001 > Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett > GPL F1 hcp. +28.67...F2 +151.26...F3 hcp. +373.73 > > Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats

you > with experience... > Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.